Current title "Brave acquires search engine to offer the first private alternative to Google" seems quite misleading since there are plenty of private alternatives to Google (search engine) already ?<p>Especially for english speaking programming and news etc. searches, <a href="https://duckduckgo.com" rel="nofollow">https://duckduckgo.com</a> is really good.
Headline is a bit rich, since duckduckgo exists (and Bing/Microsoft if you really stretch it).<p>I get the point though -- duckduckgo doesn't provide a browser. But I'm guessing Brave doesn't provide hosted email service (Gmail), file and document hosting (Google Drive and Docs) so the analogy breaks down either way.<p>That snark being said, I do want more privacy on the web -- so yay Brave!
This is just false though. There are several privacy preserving search engines out there. The fact that they're not owned by a browser vendor is irrelevant.<p>It's also annoying suggesting that it's even necessary for the search engine to be owned by the browser vendor.<p>This may well be part of Brave's plan with regard to BAT (basic attention token), or some other form of monetization but it does little for the end consumer.
I use Brave and DuckDuckGo (bing) as my primary coupled search engine.<p>However, sometimes when I am trying to find resources on a particular issue/library/framework, I have to invoke :g (google search) in order to find those results; otherwise, thy're absent from the DDG searches.<p>Until this is addressed, the search really won't be <i>that</i> competitive, unless this is some weird niche thing that I think is more widespread than it is?
What a clickbait and clearly false headline. Sadly this is very like Brave to claim things that are on the wrong side of the truth. It's like there's some kind of inferiority complex at Brave that shows it face from time to time.
The Cliqz Tech blog : <a href="https://0x65.dev" rel="nofollow">https://0x65.dev</a> contains many informations about how their constructed their private search engine.
The much more specific full title of the post is less wrong.<p>"Brave acquires search engine to offer the first private alternative to Google Search and Google Chrome on both mobile and desktop"